Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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