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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I love being a star more than life itself.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin .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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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