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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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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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 feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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