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.
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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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 was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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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