My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINAll any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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 go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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I 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..
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Hippies 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.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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