Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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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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