It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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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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