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
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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I 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.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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