When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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