After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You got to get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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