When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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 gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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