Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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