Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for.
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