.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.
JANIS JOPLINHoney, 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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