Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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