If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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