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 JOPLINIf I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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