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.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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You are what you settle for.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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And 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.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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