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.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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’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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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