And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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?
JANIS JOPLINI’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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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Except 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.
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.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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 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..
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