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?
JANIS JOPLINThe consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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.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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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