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"23 Janis Joplin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 January 1943. Died: 4 October 1970 | Musician |

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Alone Five Go Go Home
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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. 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.

Audience Call Feel First
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

About Describe How Inside
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Compromise Got You Yourself
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Answers Being Creates Intellectual
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Be The First First Girl Guess
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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.

Always Artist Chicks Like
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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.

Arthur Badly Beatnik Beatnik
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Become Lady Old Old Lady
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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Allow Father Get He
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Buy Lord Me Mercedes
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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.

Always Down OK Outrageous
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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.

Because Black Feel Know
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Audiences Blues Like Miserable
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I'm one of those regular weird people.

People Regular Those Weird
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You got to get it while you can.
Get Got While You
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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.

Back Good Hold Holding
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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Audience Because Either Feel
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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.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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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.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Ambition Around Been Desperate
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
Being Closer Gets Losing
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Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
Know Settle Who You
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Janis Joplin Quotes & Sayings