Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINI’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?
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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t 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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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