Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINWhat we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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