It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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