When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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