It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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