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 JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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