The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You are what you settle for.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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