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.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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