I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINAfter 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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You are what you settle for.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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