I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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