You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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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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