Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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
-
-
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLIN -
That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN -
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN -
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN