I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve 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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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