You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Hippies 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.
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