Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINIf 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-
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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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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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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