At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I 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..
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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