It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’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?
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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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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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