Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLINThe 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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