They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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…
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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