Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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