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..
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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 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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.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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