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 JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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