When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINAt my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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