It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLINYou’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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