I love being a star more than life itself.
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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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