I’m one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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