It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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