I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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