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.
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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