My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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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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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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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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