Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You got to get it while you can.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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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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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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