Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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The more you live, the less you die.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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