It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINAt my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You are what you settle for.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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