What 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.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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