At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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