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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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And 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.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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