I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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 started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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