If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 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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