That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLINI’m one of those regular weird people.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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