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.
JANIS JOPLINThat was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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-
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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