In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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