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 JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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