That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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