I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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 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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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