Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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