I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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