When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I’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?
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You are what you settle for.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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