I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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’m one of those regular weird people.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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