You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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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 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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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