You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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