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.
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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And 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.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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