I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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