All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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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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