Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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