You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINLike, 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?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You are what you settle for.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’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?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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