Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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 time ago in Texas
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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]
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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