Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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