I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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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, 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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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