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.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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