I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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 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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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