Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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 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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