Janis Joplin Quotes
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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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... 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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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
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It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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. Except 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. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. 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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] 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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?
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This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, 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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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You are what you settle for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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