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.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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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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