If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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