To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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