Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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 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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