Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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That 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.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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