After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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 read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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