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.
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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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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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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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