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.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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 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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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