You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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