All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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