It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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