I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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 gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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