I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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