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 JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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