When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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