I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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 better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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You are what you settle for.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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.
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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.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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