After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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