At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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