Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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.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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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