I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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 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’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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