You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINI 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..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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