Janis Joplin on breakdown
Janis Joplin101 quotes“Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.”
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I love being a star more than life itself.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin .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 JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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 JoplinJanis Joplin 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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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent The truth is every problem can’t be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.
Marco RubioMarco Rubio It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath A nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
Alan BishopAlan Bishop It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.
Al SearsAl Sears Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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