I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINHippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You are what you settle for.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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