Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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