Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINLike, 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?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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