I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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