You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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