I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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