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 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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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