Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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