In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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?’
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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