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?’
JANIS JOPLINThat story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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 someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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