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.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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