I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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