You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I 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..
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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