Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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