I’m one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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