My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right 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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.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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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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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