To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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