I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract 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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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