Janis Joplin Quotes

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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

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Motivational, Positive, Adventure

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The more you live, the less you die.

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Life And Death, Dies

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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

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Soul, Inspirational Music, Want

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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

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Self, Compromise

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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

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Left, Loses

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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. 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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Play, Games, Bullshit

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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

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Wisdom, Today, Tomorrow

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You are what you settle for.

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Settling

"8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.

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I'm one of those regular weird people.

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People, Being Weird, Weird People

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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

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Feel Good, Feels, Ifs

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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] 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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Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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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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Philosophy, World, This World

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Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

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Love, Music, Emotional

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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

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Thinking, Too Much, Drink

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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

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Waiting, Minutes, Can Do

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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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Advice, Lasts, Minutes

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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. 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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Fighting, Want, Problem

"8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.

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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... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

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Feelings, Soul, Unhappy

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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Life, Positive, Encouraging

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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

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Working It, Hard, Worth It

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It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

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Wish, Unhappiness

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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

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Fake People, Lonely, Loneliness

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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

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Wine, Expression, Grapes

Song: Trust Me, Album: Pearl

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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

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Yesterday, Tomorrow, Trade

Song: Me and My Bobby Mcgee

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I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

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Passion, Quiet

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Born: January 19, 1943
Died: October 4, 1970
Occupation: Singer
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