I love being a star more than life itself.
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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need 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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