It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 one of those regular weird people.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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