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 JOPLINIf you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do 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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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