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.
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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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 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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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