Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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 that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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