Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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