People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 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’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You got to get it while you can.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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