My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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