That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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 started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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 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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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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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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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