I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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