You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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 tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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