It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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