.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
JANIS JOPLINDistance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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