When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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