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..
JANIS JOPLINDistance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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