You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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