My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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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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