I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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 consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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