Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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