Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You are what you settle for.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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