All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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 started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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