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.
JANIS JOPLINAll you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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 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 can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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