I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 are what you settle for.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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