I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINYou’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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