My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINI would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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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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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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