I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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