My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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