After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINI had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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All 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.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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