Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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…
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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