Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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