It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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’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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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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 not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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