That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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