All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLIN
JANIS JOPLIN
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Janis Joplin101 quotes“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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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?
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You got to get it while you can.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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