As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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