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.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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