More from Janis Joplin
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin 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?
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin
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From our community writers
How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It’s not that I disagree with Bush’s economic policy or his foreign policy, it’s that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left!
Bernard FanningBernard Fanning The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.
Berit BrogaardBerit Brogaard They say either get right or get left, how about I just go forward and never look back.
Behdad SamiBehdad Sami We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren’t there, we’re left with the bad ones
Barry McCaffreyBarry McCaffrey I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Barney FrankBarney Frank Hank had left me his doomed army, and hed left marcie his inheritance. Unfair didnt begin to cover it.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).
Barbara HepworthBarbara Hepworth
