Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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 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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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