I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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 are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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