Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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