You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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 started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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