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Janis Joplin Quotes: Exploring the Wisdom and Wit of a Rock and Roll Icon

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?

I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!

You know why we’re stuck for words? Because I don’t know, we’re very into visuals.

All any girl really wants is just love and fresh water.

Singing, it’s like loving somebody. It’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.

Janis Joplin Quotes: Exploring the Wisdom and Wit of a Rock and Roll Icon part 2

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

You are what you settle for.

As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna get back.

The more you live, the less you die.

I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.

Because as a human being, you’re gonna suffer, you’re gonna hurt, and it’s how you deal with it that counts.

It’s hard to be free, but when it works, it’s worth it!

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.

I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses.

I’m one of those regular weird people.

You are what you settle for.

You got to get it while you can.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

It ain’t no use in feeling low. I got nowhere to turn, and no place to go.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Most of my audience is made up of my friends who just giggle.

I am just a girl who wants to have fun.

I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

I want to hold a series of missives to everyone I know and I’m going to title it ‘The Last Words of Janis’ because you can just never tell.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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