I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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.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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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