I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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 what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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