The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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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 can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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