When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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 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 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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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