All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINThis whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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