I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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