My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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You got to get it while you can.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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