When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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