When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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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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