Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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