I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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.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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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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