If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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You are what you settle for.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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