After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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