Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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’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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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