Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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.
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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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