That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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