That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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