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.
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 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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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