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 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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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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