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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
- Janis Joplin
#Everything
#Me
#Time
#Unhappy
#Work
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.
- Janis Joplin
#Good
#Never
#People
#Port
#Treat
Rock on out.
- Janis Joplin
#Out
#Rock
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
- Janis Joplin
#Conversation
#Happiness
#Time
#Yourself
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
- Janis Joplin
#Back
#Good
#Rather
#Sometimes
#Time
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
- Janis Joplin
#Ambition
#Looking
#Love
#Loved
#Money
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
- Janis Joplin
#Black
#Feel
#People
#Soul
#White
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
- Janis Joplin
#Be The First
#First
#Girl
#Guess
#Might
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
- Janis Joplin
#Feel
#Milk
#Singing
#Strength
#Universe
Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
- Janis Joplin
#Know
#Settle
#Who
#You
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
- Janis Joplin
#Always
#Artist
#Thought
#Want
#Whatever
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
- Janis Joplin
#Alone
#Home
#Love
#People
#Stage
All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.
- Janis Joplin
#Band
#Me
#Never
#Rock And Roll
#Rock
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
- Janis Joplin
#Buy
#Lord
#Me
#Mercedes
#Oh
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
- Janis Joplin
#Alone
#Home
#Love
#People
#Stage
I'm one of those regular weird people.
- Janis Joplin
#People
#Regular
#Those
#Weird
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
- Janis Joplin
#Intellectual
#Intelligence
#Questions
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
- Janis Joplin
#Dad
#Father
#He
#House
#Us
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
#Compromise
#Got
#You
#Yourself
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