When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You are what you settle for.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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