Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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