I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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