My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINIf you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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