Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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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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