I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLINLike, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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