If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Honey, 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.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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