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.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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You got to 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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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