I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINGimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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