You got to get it while you can.
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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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