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.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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