Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You are what you settle for.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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