I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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