You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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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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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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