As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINLike, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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