I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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 you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for 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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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