You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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 can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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