I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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