I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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 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 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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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