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.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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