Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLINHoney, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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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.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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 not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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You are what you settle for.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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