I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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