Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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