Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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 one of those regular weird people.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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You are what you settle for.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth 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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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