Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got.
More Quotes from Janis Joplin:
Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.Janis Joplin
Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them.
Janis Joplin
I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.
Janis Joplin
It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it
Janis Joplin
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin
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