I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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