On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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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.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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