You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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