My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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