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 JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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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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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 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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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