To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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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 know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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