If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I don’t know, 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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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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