That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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