My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN- Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
JANIS JOPLINI had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLINI’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
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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 they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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.
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.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
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