My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINTexas 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You got to get it while you can.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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