Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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.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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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