All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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