Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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