And 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.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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