If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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