I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Except 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.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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