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.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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