They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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