You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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