Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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