I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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 one of those regular weird people.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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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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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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