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.
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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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