It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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