Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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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.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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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