At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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