At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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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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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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