Like, 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?
JANIS JOPLINThat was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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