The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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