I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You are what you settle for.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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