I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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You are what you settle for.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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