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.
JANIS JOPLINWhat 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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