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.
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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You are what you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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?’
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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