Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINTexas 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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You are what you settle for.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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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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