Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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.
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