I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLINI’m one of those regular weird people.
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’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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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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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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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