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.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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.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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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 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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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