All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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