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 JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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