I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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