When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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 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 compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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