I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You got to get it while you can.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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