After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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