Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 got to get it while you can.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
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One good man,Oh ain’t much, honey ain’t much,It’s only everything...
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
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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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Rock on out.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.
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An’ I don’t want much outa life,I never wanted a mansion in the south.I just-a want to find someone sincereWho’d treat me like he talks,One good man.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.