You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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You are what you settle for.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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 gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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