You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINMy business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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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.
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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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