I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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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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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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