Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLINI started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You are what you settle for.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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.
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