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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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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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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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