My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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