I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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.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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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