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 JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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