I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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