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.
JANIS JOPLINI would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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 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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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