Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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