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.
JANIS JOPLIN.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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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 you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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