All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINThat 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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