You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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