I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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’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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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