People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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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.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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