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 JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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You are what you settle for.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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