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.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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