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 JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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 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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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