You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINAt my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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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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