All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINI would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you 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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