When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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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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