If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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.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 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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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