In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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