You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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That 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.
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