You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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 can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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