When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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