You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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 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 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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