All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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]
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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 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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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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’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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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