I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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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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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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