That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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