Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINLike, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I 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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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