All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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