I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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.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.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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