I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Honey, 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.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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