You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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