Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLINLike 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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