It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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