All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINExcept I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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This 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
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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