In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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