I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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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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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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