It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You are what you settle for.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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