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.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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 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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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