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.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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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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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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