My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINHippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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 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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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