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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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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