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.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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