If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLIN
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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