Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll 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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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All 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.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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