I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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