My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINAt my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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