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 JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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