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-
JANIS JOPLINMy business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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