If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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