You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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 started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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