I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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.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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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