At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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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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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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