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 JOPLINHoney, 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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