I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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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.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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