You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINAnd I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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