Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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 know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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