I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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