Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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