Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINWhat 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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