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?’
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Like, 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?
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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