I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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