You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINIt 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…
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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 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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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 someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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