I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINHippies 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You are what you settle for.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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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