You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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