I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You are what you settle for.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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