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.
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 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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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