Janis Joplin Quotes

Janis Joplin (19)

Birth:	19th January, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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Births

• 1779 - Paul Moody
• 1951 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1938 - Johnny Ball
• 1941 - Martin Puryear
• 1974 - Jewel Kilcher

Deaths

• 1965 - David Smith
• 1906 - Henrik Ibsen
• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 2012 - Paul Fussell
• 1995 - Owen Hart

• Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose. Nothing, don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free. And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feeling good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

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• It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’ s worth it!

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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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• She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.

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• Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them.

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• Buried Alive in the Blues.

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• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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• Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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• Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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• What’s happening never happens there.

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• One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.

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• Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

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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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• It’s gonna be a long hard drag, but we’ll make it.

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• I’m one of those regular weird people.

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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. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.

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• I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

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• On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

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• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

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