Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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