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-
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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 better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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 tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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