.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.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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If 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-
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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 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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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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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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