I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINI 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?’
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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