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.
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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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