All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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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