I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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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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