I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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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’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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