I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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