Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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