I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLINI won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 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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You are what you settle for.
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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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