Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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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.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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