All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You are what you settle for.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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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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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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