I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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You got to get it while you can.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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