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.
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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…
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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