My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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.
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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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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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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You got to get it while you can.
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