All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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 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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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