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.
JANIS JOPLINIf you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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