If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLINThat story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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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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