You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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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-
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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