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.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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