You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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.
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