If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINHippies 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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You are what you settle for.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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