I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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