The more you live, the less you die.
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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You are what you settle for.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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