You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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