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…
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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 started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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