I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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