At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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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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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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