On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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