Janis Joplin Quotes

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. 
Janis Joplin 

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me. 
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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'm one of those regular weird people. 
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. 
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. 
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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. 
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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. 
Janis Joplin