They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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All 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.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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