Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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