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.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your 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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