I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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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 can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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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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