That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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 not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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