To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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.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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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