You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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