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.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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