Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINLike 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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 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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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