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.
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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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