If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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