Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You got to get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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