If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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You are what you settle for.
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