When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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’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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You are what you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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