Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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