I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You are what you settle for.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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