All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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 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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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’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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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