I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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