You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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