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 JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like 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.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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