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.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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 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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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The 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.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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