I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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 you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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