Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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