You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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