You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINLike 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you 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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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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