Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINThat was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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