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?’
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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