That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINAll you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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