When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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