Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINThey asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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…
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