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?’
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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