You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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