I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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