As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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