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.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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