Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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