Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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 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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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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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