It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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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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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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