I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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