You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLIN.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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