Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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 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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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