And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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