Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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