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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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 read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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