I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s 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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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