If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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