I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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