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.
JANIS JOPLINAll any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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