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.
JANIS JOPLINThis 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
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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