You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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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 are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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