Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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