On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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.
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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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