All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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