That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINAll any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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