Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You are what you settle for.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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