You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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 story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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.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.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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