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.
JANIS JOPLINIf 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-
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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