After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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You are what you settle for.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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