It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINHoney, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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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 asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I 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.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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