To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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?’
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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