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.
JANIS JOPLINI started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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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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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 know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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