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…
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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Honey, 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.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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