All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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