I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say 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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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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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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