Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINAll any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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.
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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