Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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 got to get it while you can.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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