You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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 better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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