Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You got to get it while you can.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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