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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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Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin
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Honey, I love to go to parties,And I like to have a good time,But if it gets too pale after a whileHoney and I start looking to findOne good man.
Janis Joplin -
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin -
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin -
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 -
I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
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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