I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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