On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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 know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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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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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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