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.
JANIS JOPLINAt my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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