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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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