They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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