I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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 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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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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