You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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 someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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You got to get it while you can.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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