Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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