When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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