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.
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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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