You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINAnd I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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