If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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 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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