At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLINYou got to get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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