Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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