You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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