Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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