When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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