Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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