My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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