Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You got to get it while you can.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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