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.
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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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