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.
JANIS JOPLINAnd I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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