When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINMy business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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