My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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.
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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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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