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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN

Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN

Left Man Nothing People Person
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
I love being a star more than life itself.
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Fame Itself Life Love More Star
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Adventure Destroy Motivational Positive Tomorrow
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
JANIS JOPLIN

Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Inside Mostly Person Trying World
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Always Beer Couple Except Somewhere Sudden Voice
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound

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