You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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?
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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