Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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