That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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.
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLINAll 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.
JANIS JOPLINIf you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINTexas 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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