Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINLike most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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