Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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 you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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