It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for 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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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