This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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