When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINGimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINI think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINDistance 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 JOPLINI won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINAll you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINThis 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
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINIf 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-
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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