I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINAll my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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..
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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 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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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