You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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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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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 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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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