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.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth 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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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