You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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