I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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.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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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