I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINExcept I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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 just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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