As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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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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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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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