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
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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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 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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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