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.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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