That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippies 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.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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