You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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I 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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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