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.
JANIS JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You are what you settle for.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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