Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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..
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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