I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for.
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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 can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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