Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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 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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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