You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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