I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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-
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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