After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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