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 JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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 are what you settle for.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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