I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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