You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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You got to get it while you can.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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.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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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