If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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