Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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![Janis Joplin Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/the-consequences-screw-the-implications-of-the-act.jpg)
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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