When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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