I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINHoney, 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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