I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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