Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need 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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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