You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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