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> [Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/playing-is-just-about-feeling-playing-isn-t-necessarily-about-misery/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

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## More by Janis Joplin

> [Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/guess-what-i-might-be-the-first-hippie-pinup-girl/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/all-my-life-i-just-wanted-to-be-a-beatnik-meet-all-the-heavies-get/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/on-stage-i-make-love-to-twenty-five-thousand-people-and-then-i-go/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/i-m-a-victim-of-my-own-insides-there-was-a-time-when-i-wanted-to-know/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [“Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/tomorrow-never-happens-it-s-all-the-same-fucking-day-man/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/all-of-a-sudden-someone-threw-me-in-front-of-this-rock-and-roll-band/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [You are what you settle for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/you-are-what-you-settle-for/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/if-you-ve-got-a-today-don-t-wear-it-tomorrow-tomorrow-never-happens/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/this-whole-thing-that-s-happened-to-me-you-see-this-whole-success/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/like-most-girls-i-m-always-really-self-conscious-about-do-i-look-fat/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/you-are-what-you-settle-for-you-are-only-as-much-as-you-settle-for/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/it-s-not-what-isn-t-it-s-what-you-wish-was-that-makes-unhappiness/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/i-m-tired-of-all-these-hippie-jack-offs/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

> [At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-joplin/at-my-concerts-most-of-the-chicks-are-looking-for-liberation-they/)

[Janis Joplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-joplin/)

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