You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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 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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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