All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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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