Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLINMy business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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.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.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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You got to get it while you can.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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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’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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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