Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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