Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINAll 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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You are what you settle for.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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