I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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