In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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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.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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