It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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 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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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