.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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You are what you settle for.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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-
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