I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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