And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
JANIS JOPLINThis 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
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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