You got to get it while you can.
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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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