You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINGimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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 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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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You are what you settle for.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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