You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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