I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINAll my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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