It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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 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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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It’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.
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