If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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