All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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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 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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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