It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You are what you settle for.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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 think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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