Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging 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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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