Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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