Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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