At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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’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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You are what you settle for.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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