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.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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